Word: opening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides Mudd and Hedreen, Munro will start Dick McIntosh and Tadgh Sweeney at wing, Larry Ekpebu at center forward, and Marsh McCall, Bill Rapp, and Charlie Steele at the halfback positions. Captain Lanny Keyes and Tim Morgan will be at fullback, and Tom Bagnoli will open in the nets...
Pick Your Yield. The one redeeming feature of the new law is that price supports are based on 90% of the average selling price on the open market of the last three years, with a floor of 65% of parity. This year market prices are poor. Farm storage space is already so taxed that farmers will have to sell much of their crop in the open market at prices as low as 90? per bu., for the lack of a place to store it. Averaged over three years, the lower prices mean that a 4?-to-6? drop is possible...
Time fof Chop-Chop. A million candles etch the initials P. and C. against the night sky of Cincinnatus' home town. On the ride to the scaffold, bouquets of flowers pelt P.'s and C.'s open car. The whole vulgar holiday is surrounded by rules and rituals of elaborate illogic. Finally, the moment nears "to do chop-chop," as M'sieur Pierre puts it childishly; and childishly, too, the prisoner seeks to save his last shred of self-respect as he mutters: "By myself, by myself." Author Nabokov saves a climactic surprise for the chopping...
...Spaniards ran out of luck, and more precisely, out of cannon balls. Beaten, although for the most part still seaworthy, Medina Sidonia's fleet had no choice but to make the long run home, around Scotland and Ireland. Many ships broke up in violent squalls or split open on rocks along the Irish coast, and the natives grimly knocked out some Spaniards' brains as the men lay exhausted on the beaches. Few lived, despite legend, says Mattingly, to seed the Celts with dark skins and black eyes. Weeks later Medina Sidonia brought the remaining two-thirds...
...Schroeder's lighting sometimes brings strongly to mind the image of someone in the back throwing switches at an unwontedly rapid rate; but frequently he achieves stunning effects without loss of visibility, as when Tom appears to open the play, illuminated for a moment only by his cigarette lighter...